Okay let's face it, at some point we all take care of personal matters on company time and it usually involves a computer. Here's how one of our senior Application Engineers (AE) used SolarWinds Server and Application monitor (SAM) to get herself some primo concert tickets before everyone else. The Setup One day our…
As my supply of koozies has dwindled over the long hot Texas summer due to natural attrition (dogs making up for a neoprene dietary deficiency, unrecoverable loss while boating, etc.), my mind naturally turns toward VMWorld 2012. What better place to restock the supply and maybe even increase our USB memory stick inventory…
As I sit here in the Newark airport, enjoying the free beverages in the President's Club and trying to stay awake long enough to board the flight to Spain, it occurs to me that maybe some of you have been to or are going to Barcelona this week. A group of us from SolarWinds are heading over to attend Cisco Networkers. It's…
Usually when I'm working with companies on their network management strategy, while fault and performance management are top of mind, configuration management falls by the wayside. Nearly everyone that I've worked with wants to have easy to use, effective, and integrated configuration management - but for the most part…
It’s always been a difficult task to maintain standardized IT policy when it comes to deploying patches in your environment. Evidently IT admins try to avoid any vulnerabilities or security issues, but the scene never changes even when IT administrator cries out loud to users to keep their systems updated. There are…
If all you manage are Microsoft updates in your patch management environment, your update approval procedure is pretty straightforward: identify the updates you want to approve, and then approve them for the appropriate target groups. However, if you manage third-party applications with an automated patch management tool,…
All the reasons to alter the way the internet is governed internationally have little to do with current DNS operations, which are basically excellent in terms of the root server response time for name server queries. And you can bet that among many other stake-holders Google, or more precisely GOOG, has an enormous vested…
JMX is an acronym for Java Management Extensions and allows remote clients to connect to a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Using JMX, you can manage and monitor running applications in a JVM environment. Using Java, management of applications in a virtual machine is done through the use of Managed Beans, or MBeans. MBeans are…
Well, I'm home now and had a great trip out to Virginia. I got to meet with several customers and some people that are interested in becoming customers so it was a great trip. For those of you that responded but I was unable to visit this time, I'll be headed out that way again soon. Josh
Have you heard about Huawei and ZTE? An October 8, 2012 Reuters article, U.S. lawmakers seek to block China Huawei, ZTE U.S. inroads, states that the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has recommended “U.S. telecommunications operators…not do business with China's top network equipment makers because…
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